Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : transforming innovations in Africa : explorative stud ies on appropriation in African societies / Jan-Bart Gewald, Andre L eliveld & Iva Pesa -- Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industr y? : the story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 / Paul Nugent -- Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creat ivity : appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 / Gregor Dobler -- Frugal innovation in Africa : tracking Unilever 's washing-powder sachets / Cees van Beers, Peter Knorringa & Andr �e Leliveld -- Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers : the imp act of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in K enya / Marcel Rutten & Moses Mwangi -- From Gao : Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) / Klaas van Walraven -- From self-help gro up to water company : the Wandiege community water supply project (Kisu mu, Kenya) / Samuel O. Owuor & Dick Foeken -- 'It is time to star t my own farm' : the unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe / Marleen Dekker & Bill Kinsey -- 'Cassava is our chief' : negotiating identity, markets and the stat e through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia / Iva Pe�sa -- The soci al cocktail : weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Bots wana / Rijk van Dijk -- Of labradors and libraries : the transfor mation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Engine of change : a social history of the car-mechanics s ector in the Horn of Africa / Stefano Bellucci & Massimo Zaccaria -- Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists of Kenya : the role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wel ls / Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten -- Stealing from the railways : blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf.